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Ardea herodias, love-gestures of the male. Ardea ludoviciana, age of mature plumage in; continued growth of crest and plumes in the male of. Ardea nycticorax, cries of. Ardeola, young of. Ardetta, changes of plumage in. Argenteuil. Argus pheasant, display of plumage by the male; ocellated spots of the; gradation of characters in the.
On Strzelecki's Creek a small tern was shot, and on Cooper's Creek several seagulls were seen, but beyond these we had no reason to anticipate the existence of inland water from any thing we noticed as to the feathered races. On our first arrival at the Depot there was a bittern, Ardetta flavicollis, that frequented the creek in considerable numbers.
The American Bittern is not mentioned in Professor Ansted's list, no specimen having been found in the Channel Islands till after the publication of his list, and of course there is no specimen in the Museum. LITTLE BITTERN. Ardetta minuta, Linnaeus. French, "Heron Blongios."
Both sexes of the wild turkey are ultimately furnished with a tuft of bristles on the breast, but in two-year-old birds the tuft is about four inches long in the male and hardly apparent in the female; when, however, the latter has reached her fourth year, it is from four to five inches in length. On Ardetta, Translation of Cuvier's 'Regne Animal, by Mr. Blyth, footnote, p. 159.
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